Liz Brazile
Interim Online Managing Editor
About
As KUOW's Interim Online Managing Editor, Liz oversees the newsroom's daily web coverage and digital news strategy. She also edits and reports stories for kuow.org.
Liz is among 10 journalists selected by ProPublica in 2024 to undergo the outlet's rigorous Investigative Editor Training Program. She's under ProPublica's mentorship through 2025.
Liz joined KUOW in January 2020 as an Online Editor/Producer. Prior to that, Liz covered education for Crosscut/KCTS 9. She is also an alumna of YES! Magazine, WLWT-TV, and The Cincinnati Herald. Liz currently serves as Senior Vice President of the Seattle Association of Black Journalists. She has also served board terms as President and Secretary of the chapter.
Liz was born and raised in Cincinnati, OH. A violinist, Liz originally started her college career thinking she'd become a music teacher. But after befriending a journalism major at the University of Cincinnati, she was inspired to pursue a career in news instead.
When she's not busy with the news, Liz enjoys roller skating, exploring new places, working out, and doting on her Yorkie.
Location: Seattle
Languages Spoken: English and conversational Spanish
Pronouns: she/her/hers
Professional Affiliations: Seattle Association of Black Journalists; National Association of Black Journalists; Investigative Reporters and Editors; and Ida B. Wells Society
Stories
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This is how hard it is to identify a Seattle cop
In Seattle, a police officer's "badge number" could be a unique identifier — or it could be a number on a randomly assigned badge. And even when the number does identify an individual officer, it can still be tricky to identify them using that alone
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Health
Reports of bizarre menstrual cycles emerge after tear gas exposure from Seattle protests
Amid ongoing civil rights demonstrations in Seattle, protesters, journalists, and even people blocks from the action have reported abnormal menstrual cycles after being exposed to tear gas.
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Seattle police sergeant from car attack investigation has spotty ethics history
Sgt. Michael Tietjen, who is accused of driving an unmarked police vehicle onto a sidewalk toward protesters on Capitol Hill on August 12, has a history of ethics investigations and excessive force allegations, according to court documents and a series of 2007 reports published by the Seattle Times.
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Auburn officer charged with murder in 2019 police killing, testing new deadly force legal standards
Auburn Police officer Jeffrey Nelson has been charged with second degree murder and first degree assault in connection with the 2019 shooting death of 26-year-old Jesse Sarey.
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Denied anti-seizure medicine, a knee in the neck. Seattle protesters say they feared death following arrests
Protester Samantha Six says she had multiple, untreated seizures while in police custody and jail; Her husband, Damien Boyd, says a Seattle Police officer jammed their knee into his neck, preventing him from being able to breathe.
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Education
Seattle schools will continue remote learning in the fall, could later implement outdoor education
After mulling over several iterations of a state-required plan for getting kids back to learning this fall, the Seattle Public Schools district will officially go back to online learning come September 2. The plan leaves the door open for some outdoor classes to occur during the 2020-21 school year, if the district moves to a hybrid learning model.
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Federal judge rejects attempt to enforce Seattle crowd weapons ban in lawsuit over protesters' protective gear
Federal Judge Richard Jones on Monday denied a motion seeking an outright ban on the Seattle Police Department's use of crowd control weapons. The request was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington as part of a lawsuit arguing that protesters are being priced out of their constitutional rights by an increasing need to wear protective gear to ongoing civil rights demonstrations.
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Needing body armor to protest in Seattle violates constitutional rights, lawsuit argues
The court filing argues that the city has infringed on its residents’ First Amendment Rights to peaceably assemble, and has neglected its duty to provide equal protection under the law.
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Judge denies Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan's bid to kill election recall petition against her
A King County Superior Court judge on Wednesday doubled down on a decision earlier this month to allow an election recall petition against Durkan to proceed. The petition is aimed at removing Durkan from office in response to the Seattle Police Department's use of tear gas and other crowd control weapons against protesters amid ongoing civil rights demonstrations.
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More federal agents sent to Seattle. Mayor Durkan says the city wasn't told in advance
The revelations about their presence in the Seattle area come amid an ongoing clash between protesters and federal agents stationed in Portland since earlier this month.